MAKE THIS THE WEEK YOU...
BARBECUE LIKE A PRO
THE PERFECT BURGER
FORGET burnt burgers and underdone sausages, the key to a brilliant barbecue is to keep everything moist and well-seasoned.
Try putting an ice cube on top of your burger, cook your fish over a bed of sliced lemon, or spray your pork sausage with apple juice.
FLAVOUR BOOST
TO STEP up the flavour, grill meat on the barbecue over an additional Smoker Box (£7.48, homebase.co.uk) for a smoked taste, or Himalayan Rock Salt slab (£34.99, lake land.co.uk).
When heated to a high temperature, the block — literally a slab of rock mined from under the Himalayas — acts as a frying pan, infusing food with natural salt and minerals, including iron, copper and calcium.
HI-TECH SIDEKICKS
IF IN DOUBT, cheat with a gadget. The GrillTime app (£1.99, grilltimeapp.com) gives bespoke cooking instructions, reminding you when to flip, and remove, CLEAN MACHINE SAY goodbye to the dreaded clean-up — finally, there’s a barbecue you can pop in the dishwasher. The cooking surfaces on Campingaz’s InstaClean collection ( campingaz.
com) can be dismantled in 60 seconds, ready to go in the dishwasher.
Alternatively, let a Grillbot loose on your existing barbecue: at the push of a button, these robotic brushes scour the grill (£99, amazon.co.uk).
SAVVY SIDES
MAXIMISE cooking space by using flexible skewers. These allow you to bend your vegetable kebabs, in any direction, around your meat mains (£9.99, amazon.co.uk).
Grill clips are also great for stopping small portions falling through your barbecue slats — just line up the greens and clamp in place to cook (£18.19, amazon.co.uk).